Gele v. B a Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 146 · 1980
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Eaton v. McLain (1994), United States v. Texas Education Agency (1981)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McAllister v. United States · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · The Pennsylvania · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he calibration of culpability simply is not susceptible to any real precision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a judgment is modified or reversed with a direction that a judgment for money be entered in the district court, the mandate shall contain instructions with respect to allowance of interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could hardly have been expected to abate an obligation prior to the time that it had legally arisen, or now to pay compensation for this failure of prescience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.